%0 Book %D 1993 %T A Directory of Tree-Ring Dated Native American Sites in the American Southwest %A Robinson, William J. %A Ronald H. Towner %K apache %K Archaeology %K dating %K dendrochronology %K directory %K Geography %K native american %K navajo %K Pueblo %K quandrangle %K site %K southwest %K tree ring %K ute %I Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research %C Tucson %8 09/1993 %G English %0 Magazine Article %D 1978 %T Tree Ring Chronology %A Moore, Peter %K chronology %K dates %K dating %K dendrochronology %K tree ring %B Nature %V 272 %0 Book %D 1970 %T Tree-Ring Dates from New Mexico M-N,S,Z Southwestern New Mexico Area %A Bannister, Bryant %A Hannah, John W. %A Robinson, William J. %K date %K dating %K dendrochronology %K new mexico %K southwest %K tree ring %I University of Arizona %C Tucson %0 Thesis %D 1963 %T The Archaeological Interpretation of Tree-Ring Specimins for Dating Southwestern Ceramic Styles %A Breternitz, David Alan %K anthropology %K Archaeology %K ceramic %K dating %K dendrochronology %K indiginous %K lasting phenomenon of traded ceramics %K pottery %K site %K southwest %K spanish entrada %K specimen %K style %K trade %K tree ring %X

The interpretation of approximately 5715 dated tree-ring specimens from about 342 archaeological sites in the American Southwest is the basis for “dating” the pottery types found in association. The time involved spans the period from the introduction of fired ceramics to the Spanish Entrada, approximately A.D. 1550.

The provenience and site situation information for both the dated tree-ring specimens and the associated pottery is tabulated for each site and site-area which has tree-ring dates, except when these data are accessible in the literature.

Criteria for establishing the validity of the association and provenience of the tree-ring specimens and the pottery are formulated. The interpretation and evaluation of the validity of these dates and associations is the basis for “dating” the various pottery types. The occurrence of pottery in “Indigenous” and “Trade” situation is presented separately; the pottery types in these categories are dated separately, in so far as possible, and then evaluated in terms of total distribution and context. Approximately 325 pottery types, varieties, and ceramic categories are dated on the basis of archaeological associations with tree-ring specimens. The data presented do not change the gross time placements of previous workers, but they do (1) refine some pottery dates, (2) reject others, and (3) give differing validity to additional ceramic dates.

The concept of “pottery type” is used as the analytical unit for dating Southwestern ceramics. The concept of “Ceramic Style” represents synthesis at a higher level of abstraction and does not lend itself to dating based on tree-ring material.

A progressive increase in the amount and range of traded pottery is noted through time. The increase in the distribution of various pottery types after about A.D. 1250 is also accompanied by an increase in attempts to make local copies of certain pottery types obtained by trade.

Decorated pottery types which occur as trade products tend to persist in later archaeological contexts and this situation is discussed as the “Lasting Phenomenon of Traded Ceramics.”

Southwestern pottery is distributed in prehistoric times on the basis of hand-to-hand or person-to-person contact and although the amount of trade and the spatial dispersal increase in time, particularly after 1250, this trade never reaches the same degree of institutionalization that is seen in Mesoamerica.  An associated feature is an emphasis on the trading of small, decorated vessels, as opposed to large, utility or undecorated, ceramic containers.

%I University of Arizona %C Tucson %V Doctor of Philosophy %8 1963 %G English %0 Journal Article %D 1963 %T Dendrochronology %A Bannister, Bryant %K bannister %K dating %K dendrochronology %K tree ring %K tree rings %0 Journal Article %J Tree Ring Bulletin %D 1946 %T Precision of Ring Dating in Tree-Ring Chronologies %A Douglass, A.E. %K Archaeology %K chronology %K dating %K dendrochronology %K Douglass %K historic %K precision dating %K tree ring %B Tree Ring Bulletin %I University of Arizona %C Tucson %V XVII %N No. 3 %0 Journal Article %J Bulletin of the University of Utah %D 1946 %T Researches in Dendrochronology %A Douglass, A.E. %K dating %K dendrochronology %K Douglass %K historic %K tree ring %K university of utah %B Bulletin of the University of Utah %I University of Utah %C Salt Lake City %V 37 %N No. 2 %0 Generic %D 1944 %T Tree Rings and Climatic Cycles, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, Astronomical Studies %A Peterson, Roy M. %A Douglass, A.E. %K astronomy %K climate %K dating %K dendrochronology %K Douglass %K environment %K fraternity %K historic %K tree ring %K tree ring laboratory %B Phi Kappa Phi Journal %I University of Arizona %C Tucson %V XXIV %N No. 3 %0 Journal Article %J Journal of Forestry %D 1942 %T Crossdating at Mesa Verde National Park %A Douglass, A.E. %K Archaeology %K crossdating %K dating %K Douglass %K Forestry %K historic %K mesa verde %K southwest %K tree ring %B Journal of Forestry %V 40 %N No. 4 %0 Journal Article %J Journal of Forestry %D 1941 %T Crossdating in Dendrochronology %A Douglass, A.E. %K crossdating %K dating %K dendrochronology %K Douglass %K historic %K tree ring %B Journal of Forestry %V 39 %0 Journal Article %J Field Museum News %D 1940 %T Tree Rings Nature's Calendar for the Archaeologist %K Archaeology %K chronology %K dating %K dendrochronology %K Douglass %K historic %K southwest %K tree ring %B Field Museum News %0 Journal Article %J University of Arizona Bulletin %D 1937 %T Tree Rings and Chronology %A Douglass, A.E. %K chronology %K dates %K dating %K Douglass %K historic %K tree ring %B University of Arizona Bulletin %I University of Arizona %C Tucson %V VII %N No. 4 %0 Generic %D 1935 %T Dating Pueblo Bonito and Other Ruins of the Southwest %A Douglass, A.E. %K Archaeology %K dates %K dating %K Douglass %K pueblo bonito %K ruins %K southwest %B National Geographic Society %I National Geographic Society %0 Magazine Article %D 1929 %T Secret of the Southwest Solved by Talkative Tree Rings %A Douglass, A.E. %K Archaeology %K dates %K dating %K Douglass %K Hopi %K national geographic %K southwest %K tree rings %K zuni %B National Geographic Magazine %0 Journal Article %J Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society %D 1922 %T Some Topographic and Climatic Characters in the Annual Ring of the Yellow Pines and Sequoias of the Southwest %A Douglass, A.E. %K annual %K characteristics %K characters %K climate %K climatic %K dates %K dating %K Douglass %K environment %K ring %K sequoias %K southwest %K topographic %K tree ring %K tree rings %K yellow pine %B Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society %V LXI %N No. 2 %0 Magazine Article %D 1921 %T Dating Our Prehistoric Ruins %A Douglass, A.E. %K Archaeology %K dates %K dating %K Douglass %K historic %K Prehistoric %K ruins %K southwest %K tree ring %B Natural History %V XXI %N No.1 %0 Generic %D 0 %T Tree Ring Dates and Dating of Southwestern Prehistoric Ruins %A Douglass, A.E. %K addresses %K Archaeology %K date %K dates %K dating %K Douglass %K historic %K prehistoric ruins %K sites %K tree ring